[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #1416: wingrass7 nightly build crash on start

GDAL · August 2, 2011, 12:54pm

#1416: wingrass7 nightly build crash on start
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Reporter: MilenaN | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0.0
Component: Startup | Version: svn-trunk
Keywords: | Platform: MSWindows 7
Cpu: x86-64 |
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Hi,

wingrass7 behaves in a strange way on start:
1. It starts in a minimised window, so the user is not sure if anything
happened after clicking the grass icon.

2. When the (windows) user finds eventually the minimised grass window and
makes it bigger, the cmd window (!) appears, encouraging him gently to
"Hit RETURN to continue" (what on earth RETURN is, the user thinks).

3. Finally Welcome window appears but no grass database can be found (when
grass 64 and 65 have no problem with it on the same pc). Pointed to the
path, grass crasches with the following message in cmd:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\GRASS 7.0.SVN\etc\gui\wxpython\gis_set.py",
line
877, in <module>
     GRASSStartUp = StartUp(0)
   File "c:\OSGeo4W\apps\Python25\lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-
unicode\wx\_core.p
y", line 7935, in __init__
     self._BootstrapApp()
   File "c:\OSGeo4W\apps\Python25\lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-
unicode\wx\_core.p
y", line 7509, in _BootstrapApp
     return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\GRASS 7.0.SVN\etc\gui\wxpython\gis_set.py",
line
862, in OnInit
     StartUp.OnBrowse(None)
   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\GRASS 7.0.SVN\etc\gui\wxpython\gis_set.py",
line
697, in OnBrowse
     self.OnSetDatabase(event)
   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\GRASS 7.0.SVN\etc\gui\wxpython\gis_set.py",
line
686, in OnSetDatabase
     self.OnSelectLocation(None)
   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\GRASS 7.0.SVN\etc\gui\wxpython\gis_set.py",
line
635, in OnSelectLocation
     self.listOfLocations[self.lblocations.GetSelection()]))
   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\GRASS 7.0.SVN\etc\gui\wxpython\gis_set.py",
line
599, in UpdateMapsets
     gisdbase = self.gisdbase)
   File "c:/osgeo4w/usr/src/grass_trunk/dist.i686-pc-
mingw32/etc/gui/wxpython/gui
_modules/gcmd.py", line 610, in RunCommand
   File "c:/osgeo4w/usr/src/grass_trunk/dist.i686-pc-
mingw32/etc/gui/wxpython/gui
_modules/gcmd.py", line 610, in <lambda>
   File "c:/osgeo4w/usr/src/grass_trunk/dist.i686-pc-
mingw32/etc/gui/wxpython/gui
_modules/utils.py", line 664, in DecodeString
   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\GRASS
7.0.SVN\Python25\lib\encodings\utf_8.py", l
ine 16, in decode
     return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa3 in position 26:
unexpect
ed code byte
Error in GUI startup. If necessary, please report this error to the GRASS
develo
pers.
Switching to text mode now.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1416>
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GDAL · February 13, 2013, 10:18pm

#1416: wingrass7 nightly build crash on start
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Reporter: MilenaN | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0.0
Component: Startup | Version: svn-trunk
Keywords: | Platform: MSWindows 7
Cpu: x86-64 |
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Comment(by martinl):

Please try out more recent build. Still relevant?

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1416#comment:1>
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GDAL · February 17, 2014, 3:49am

#1416: wingrass7 nightly build crash on start
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  Reporter: MilenaN | Owner: grass-dev@…
      Type: defect | Status: closed
  Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0.0
Component: Startup | Version: svn-trunk
Resolution: worksforme | Keywords: encoding
  Platform: MSWindows 7 | Cpu: x86-64
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Changes (by wenzeslaus):

  * keywords: => encoding
  * status: new => closed
  * resolution: => worksforme

Comment:

Although, it is hard to say if this encoding error was fixed, no activity
and no further reports, so closing this ticket as worksforme, so there are
some people here and there running localized GRASS 7 on MS Windows.

Reopen if the the error is the same, create a new one if the error is
different. Please try to make ticket summary less general, e.g. use end of
the Python traceback (''WinGRASS 7 nightly build crash on start with
UnicodeDecodeError''). Use `{{{` and `}}}` to separate tracebacks or any
other errors from your text in the report. However, thanks for your
reports in any form.

Good comment about ''Hit RETURN to continue'', create a ticket for it if
you think that it should be changed (and discuss some translation if
possible).

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1416#comment:2>
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GDAL · February 17, 2014, 4:43am

#1416: wingrass7 nightly build crash on start
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  Reporter: MilenaN | Owner: grass-dev@…
      Type: defect | Status: closed
  Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0.0
Component: Startup | Version: svn-trunk
Resolution: worksforme | Keywords: encoding
  Platform: MSWindows 7 | Cpu: x86-64
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Comment(by hamish):

Replying to [comment:2 wenzeslaus]:
> Good comment about ''Hit RETURN to continue'', create a
> ticket for it if you think that it should be changed
> (and discuss some translation if possible).

I was pretty shocked last year when I was talking some
post-grad students through some task and they just looked
at me blankly when I said to press the Return key. These
kids never saw a typewriter.... No idea how I'd try to
explain the difference between \r and \n to them.

methinks we need to teach them.

Hamish

ps- the translation's easy, aka "Enter"

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1416#comment:3>
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GDAL · February 17, 2014, 8:25pm

#1416: wingrass7 nightly build crash on start
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  Reporter: MilenaN | Owner: grass-dev@…
      Type: defect | Status: closed
  Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0.0
Component: Startup | Version: svn-trunk
Resolution: worksforme | Keywords: encoding
  Platform: MSWindows 7 | Cpu: x86-64
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Comment(by glynn):

Replying to [comment:3 hamish]:

> ps- the translation's easy, aka "Enter"

"Enter" is typically printed on the key on the lower-right of the numeric
keypad. While that often has the same effect as the Return (down-and-left-
arrow) key, it isn't always the case.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1416#comment:4>
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